[sdiy] Communications with voices in a polyphonic synth

[Neil Johnson]

Hi,

cheater cheater wrote:
> Each packet contains a 'path' (think of, for example, a URL on a web
> page). It can specify, for example, the broadcast mode. So you could
> have an address such as
> /voices/1/start_note/
> for just the first voice
> or:
> voices/all/start_note/
> for all voices.

Bang goes your internal bus bandwidth then!  Suddenly a 3-or-so byte  
message explodes into a veritable essay on what note to turn on.

> Of course, parsing all this is up to you, but it's simple stuff.

Tom will want to avoid parsing anything but simple bit-encoded  
messages on the dsPICs unless he likes sample rates measured in 1/hours.

Neil
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